InsaneJournal

Boxes
Mine is an outdated manual -- an outdated outlook -- an outdated everything.

I'm frozen in time. I'm in a box of my own making, and I can change inside, and
sit here and watch myself change, but the box is still here. It's like the one
story that I loved -- just for the one line, when the people realize where
they've gone wrong. When the government realizes that it's created a handful of
sociopaths where it intended to neutralize potentially dangerous people.

'When you stop touching the world, the world stops touching you.'

Maybe outside of context, it doesn't seem as brilliant, but it's held true in
real life enough to convince me that the author was onto something. I'm rather
certain that I didn't get all of the words exactly right, either, so I'm not
going to bother looking for the original piece, but... there it is. The heart of
this lesson.

I should write down a list of these things. Truisms that I don't know that most
people take the time to think about.